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Cigar Mold.

Patented April 19,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRIGK G. MILLER AND HENRY O. PETERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,443, dated April 19, 1881.

Application filed March 23, 1881. (ModeL) 1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDRIGK O. MILLER and HENRY O. PETERs, both of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Molds, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in wooden cigar-mold cups or plnngers.

Wooden cups and plungers have hitherto been made from blocks of wood in which the grain ran either parallel with the plane of the lid or backing to which they are attached, or else with the grain running vertically-that is, at right angles to the face of the backing to which the cups are attached. Serious objections are encountered in the use of either of these two forms of plungers. In the first the edges of the cups split oft easily, and they wear out rapidly, while they are easily made by reaming out the concave with an ordinary reamer. In the second class, or vertical top mold, as they are called, the plungers have sharper and more durable edges; yet several objections have been encountered in their construction and use. It was found impossible to make the vertical cups by reaming, and expensive machinery operating a wabbling saw to cut the concave groove of the plunger had to be employed. It was found diflioult, also, to shape these vertical cups by frizzing so as to have smooth surfaces upon the outer edges of the plungers. Again, it was found that these vertical cups or plungers were very easily affected by moisture, causing them to shrink and swell and to stick in their matrices, and rendering it troublesome to remove the lid from the matrix-block. I

We have discovered that by making the cups or plungers from blocks of wood which are sawed across the grain, so that the grain of the timber will lie in oblique planes, forming an angle to the horizontal plane of the cup of from thirty to forty degrees, we can obviate the objections existing in the manufacture and use of the two former classes of plungers, and at the same time obtain a strong, smooth, durable cup, having sharp edges, and with little liability to shrink and swell, which plungers also can be readily reamed, and at the same time produce a smooth finish for both the concave portion and the outer edges. We have thus in a great measure avoided the difficulties existing in the two classes of plungers hitherto made, and at the same time have combined in one plunger substantially the advantages singly existing in the other two classes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention. Fig. 2is a central longitudinal section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing a modificatiolnof our improvement.

B represents the cup or plunger. b represents the concave portion of the same.

A represents a flange, made on and with the plunger B, for attachment to the lid of the mold.

It is obvious that the cup may be made and attached to the lid of the cigar-mold in any of the well-known forms of construction, instead of the one shown in the drawings.

Instead of having the cup made of one piece of wood sawed across the grain, so as to lie obliquely in one direction only, as shown in Fig. 1, the plunger may be made of two blocks of wood, sawed across the grain in a similar manner and united together so that the grain shall lie obliquely in two directions, as shown in Fig. 3.

The division of the cup may be made at any point along the straight portion of the cup betweenthe points 0 and O. This modification will possess substantially the advantages herein described as of our invention.

We claim- The plunger or cup of a cigar-mold made of wooden blocks with the grain of wood running obliquely to the plane of the cup, in the manner substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDRIGK O. MILLER. HENRY O. PETERS.

, Witnesses:

HERMANN ALBERT, WM. HODGSON. 

